Richard,
Thanks for this note on the vote process. I will ask for further votes on
the to ensure compliance - even though RC4 was moved to release area. Will send
out an email with the new locations. Once an additional vote is registered, I
will send out the vote result email.
--Bipin
On 2023/08/04 20:05:35 Richard Zowalla wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> During the last release vote, I noticed the following things that we
> should do better next time to adhere to the ASF release guidelines
> [1,2,3]:
>
> - We need at least 3 (binding) votes for a release. A binding vote
> originates from PMC members only (although community is encouraged to
> also cast non-binding votes and test the binaries). For 2.5.0, we only
> had 2 (binding) votes for RC4 and an implicit one (at least I assume
> it) by our release manager, which would need to be cast next time, so
> we can formally do the release according to the foundation's policies.
>
> - A successful vote should be followed by a [VOTE] [RESULT] mail to
> indicate, that the vote was successful and the release process
> continues.
>
> - If multiple RC's are needed to do a release, we would need to sent a
> mail with [VOTE] [CANCELLED] to indicate the failed attempt and start a
> new mail thread with the next release candidate. This make the process
> more transparent to everyone.
>
> No blaming, just my observation. I think, that we can do better next
> time :)
>
> Gruß
> Richard
>
> [1] https://infra.apache.org/release-publishing.html
> [2] https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html
> [3] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html
>
